Gmail to warn when email comms are not encrypted

  • 11 February 2016
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Posted on 10 February 2016.From now on, Gmail users will be able to see whether their communications with other email account holders - whether Gmail or any other email service - is secured. If it's not, there will be a red broken lock icon in the upper right corner of the message: "Gmail has always supported encryption in transit using TLS, and will automatically encrypt your incoming and outgoing emails if it can," noted John Rae-Grant, Gmail Product Manager. Google's vocal and obvious preference for this option has also pushed other email providers (Yahoo, Microsoft, Comcast, etc.) to offer end-to-end mail encryption to their customers.

Still, not all email providers have implemented it, and Gmail is determined that this failing does not ultimately affect their own users. full article here:

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